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0% of Colgate University's Art & Art History course descriptions are framed from the left. Across all 100 schools' Art & Art History departments, it is 3.8%.

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Colgate University: 0% Art & Art History at all 100 schools: 3.8% each other school in the comparison

Where Art & Art History courses fall

0%Far left92–100

40%Left75–91

20%Center-left59–74

0%Center42–58

0%Center-right26–41

40%Right9–25

0%Far right0–8

5 plotted courses (the ones with a political subject). 100 = far left, 50 = the average American, 0 = far right. Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes.

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Framing Subject

Subject places what a course studies, not the side it takes. A course on slavery or the Holocaust lands far right and a course on Marx or the Soviet Union lands far left, whether the course praises, criticizes or simply describes it.

Furthest-left subjects

ARTH 101 · Caves to Cathedrals: The Art of Europe and the Mediterranean to the 13th Century75

Art & Art History

Examines some of the best-preserved monuments from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the early and medieval Islamic world, and medieval Europe. Lectures, readings and discussions consider why, how and for whom these works…

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ARTH 232 · Latin American Modernism, 1922-196875

Art & Art History

Examines how Latin American artists responded to development and dependency discourses in the context of accelerated modernization, and how modernity was visually constructed in the region. Students consider a wide variety of media,…

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ARTH 240 · Art and Theory 1950-198074

Art & Art History

Surveys international art movements of the late 20th century that broadly interrogate the definition of art, the status of the art object, and the role of the artist. Engages with critical theory that informs artistic practice (and vice…

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Furthest-right subjects

ARTH 280 · Visual Culture of Fascism10

Art & Art History

Through a close analysis of cultural production and ideological statements, students examine the relationship between the politics of fascism and its visual practices, analyzing the role of art in the formation of the regimes' self-identity…

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ARTH 257 · Colonizing and Decolonizing Museums17

Art & Art History

Museums have meant many things to different people over the centuries. The mandate to display and preserve objects of historical interest is a relatively recent meaning. But museums have always had agendas, implicit judgements about the…

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Why this number, in plain words

Share of courses described from the left. Percent of all courses in the group whose Framing reading is leftward: the description frames its subject one-sidedly to the left.

Counted: all courses in the group, including N and I. No interval is published for this number.

Readings are of catalog description text, not of teaching, syllabi or individual professors.

Details: exact rows, definitions and method

Name	Metric	Value	95% interval	n	scored
Colgate University · Art & Art History	bias_left_share	0	—	58	—
Art & Art History	bias_left_share	3.8	3.5 – 4.2	14,866	—

Formula: 100 * count(bias_cat = 'L') / n
Interval: Wilson score 95% (wilson_interval)
Model / prompt / snapshot: gpt-5.6-sol · r12 (2026-10-16-le49-r12) · 6df50b10
Metric caveats: Right-framed courses are almost absent (33 of 124,290); this run cannot tell catalog reality from model sensitivity. Compare schools with adjusted_ratio, not this raw share, because department mix differs.

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